Lindsay and Bjork from Pinch of Yum created an ebook called Tasty Food Photography.
It’s been such a hit that they expanded it and have recently relaunched it.
For anyone who needs help, guidance, advice, tutorials, practical, and real-life suggestions for improving your food photography, it’s such a great resource.
That’s pretty much everyone, right? Myself included.
I have a Photography page on my site, which includes what camera and lenses I use, my general approach to food photography, as well as links to resources, books, recommendations, and so forth.
Inside Tasty Food Photography, here’s what you’ll find:
There’s Technical Tips, like understanding your camera and what all those dials do, and what happens when you turn a dial a certain direction.
Suggestions about Composition
Real life Editing examples that help illustrate that white balance and brightness are not the same thing. Nor are exposure and brightness.
When I was first learning about photography, it all blurred together, and I wish I would have had an ebook like this to reference.
Aside from the book, Lindsay recently posted, Ten Household Items That Can Improve Your Food Photography, and it’s one of my favorite posts she’s ever written.
It’s extremely informative, practical, nothing hard to find or expensive. I love that she and Bjork are sensitive to those things.
If you want to buy Tasty Food Photography, Lindsay and Bjork have extended a coupon for 25% off the normal price of $19. So the ebook will be less that $15 bucks. What a deal.
Enter code ac25 at checkout. Coupon expires 8/2/13.
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P.S. For the Peanut Butter fans, check out my cookbook, Peanut Butter Comfort
I struggle with getting the lighting right in my photos. I would love to learn some new tricks for how to get this right.
I struggle with photo composition and finding the right angle for a shot. There seem to be only so many ways to shoot cookies and bars.
My biggest struggle right now with food photography is lighting and Lindsay does such an amazing job with that, so I’d love to win this book and read about her tricks.
I would love to learn more about lighting and composition. This ebook would be a godsend for that!
I would love love love this book!! I’ve been trying to work on my photography since I started my blog, and I have a pretty good camera already (not amazing, but…. it definitely does the trick!) I just need to learn how to use it!
Until we moved recently I had very little natural light to work with. In our new place, I’m ready to take my photography up a notch (or several) and have looked to their blog for inspiration so many times! I’ve wanted this ebook for ages!
I struggle with lighting if my photos sometimes and would love to learn more about getting faster at taking great shots and which shots the readers seem to be most interested in seeing. Prep? Or final product?
i struggle with simply being creative with photography
What a great book!
I need to learn a lot of the technical aspects (aperture, shutter speed, etc.) that go along with taking great food pics, so this book would be awesome!
great giveaway! I struggle most with white balance and really want to work on improving that!
Thanks so much for posting the coupon code! I have been a long time reader and big time admirer of “pinch of yum”, but never got their ebook – the coupon code is a great incentive to finally do it!
This is an awesome giveaway!
My biggest struggle is probably capturing colors as richly as I want to. Sometimes certain angles seem to wash them out!
I’m starting from scratch with photography, so any help I can get would be great.
My stepdaughter is an art major and likes photography–this would be a nice resource for her
I recently read Plate to Pixel but I expect this book will be equally as awesome!
OMG I sooooo need this. It’s so hard deciding on a camera for food photography. People told me to study up on the basics of a camera first before making a purchase. I’m still learning. All I still have right now is the iphone. But I can imagine how much help it would be with even iphone pics!